Aging Adult Services offers a FREE confidential meeting with a trained professional to help you understand and formulate your Advance Directive.

Advance Directives serve several interests of patients should they become incompetent by:

1.  Protecting the moral and legal right of self-determination

2.  Diminishing uncertainty about what a patient would want done

3.  Reducing conflict among decision makers

4.  Relieving the anxiety of families and care givers about making end of life decisions and patients' fears about over treatment

5.  Facilitating altruism by allowing patients to donate organs or to relieve their families of the economic burdens of unnecessary treatment

(Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, JAMA, July 15, 1992-Vol 268, No. 3 page 354)

Contact Information

Advance Directives

Aging Adult Services 

1101 Welch Road, C-1
Palo Alto, CA 94304-5362

Directive Resource Consultant: Betsy Carpenter

Phone:  (650) 723-1303 or (650) 498-3333

Fax:  (650) 736-4186